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As Kingfishers Catch Fire : Little Black Classic by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Category: Classic Fiction
'O let them be left, wildness and wet.' As Kingfishers Catch Fire is a selection of Gerard Manley Hopkins' incomparably brilliant poetry, ranging from the ecstasy of 'The Windhover' and 'Pied Beauty' to the heart-wrenching despair of the 'sonnets of desolation'. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 boo ...Show more
Gerard Manley Hopkins: Poems Selected by John Stammers by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Category: Poetry | Series: Poet to Poet S.
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to some of the ...Show more
Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Major Works by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Category: Poetry | Series: Oxford World's Classics
This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together all Hopkins's poetry and a generous selection of his prose writings to give the essence of his work and thinking. Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89) ...Show more
Poems and Prose by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Ser.
Dazzling in its prosodic innovations, such as the 'sprung rhythm' he pioneered, and wide-ranging in its complexity and metaphysical interest. The Penguin Classics edition of Gerard Manley Hopkins's Poems and Prose is selected and edited with an introduction by W.H. Gardner.Closer to Dylan Thomas than Ma ...Show more
Poems and Prose of Gerard Manley Hopkins by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Category: Poetry | Series: Classics Ser.
Closer to Dylan Thomas than Matthew Arnold in his 'creative violence' and insistence on the sound of poetry, Gerard Manley Hopkins was no staid, conventional Victorian. On entering the Society of Jesus at the age of twenty-four, he burnt all his poetry and 'resolved to write no more, as not belonging to ...Show more
The Gospel in Gerard Manley Hopkins - Selections from his Poems, Letters, Journals, and Spiritual Writings by Gerard Manley Hopkins; Margaret R Ellsburg (Editor); Dana Gioia (Foreword by)
Category: Poetry
How did a Catholic priest who died a failure become one of the world's greatest poets? Discover in his own words the struggle for faith that gave birth to some of the best spiritual poetry of all time. Gerard Manley Hopkins deserves his place among the greatest poets in the English language. He ranks s ...Show more
The Woman of the Pharisees by Mauriac; Gerard Manley Hopkins (Translator)
Category: Languages and Reference
"A deeply impressive novel by an author whose growth has been continuous and whose stature makes so much contemporary fiction seem sadly thin by comparison."--The New Yorker Francois Mauriac--who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1952--is famous for his subtle character portraits of the Fren ...Show more
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